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Moms find companionship and guides for their vocation!, October 17, 2011
This review is from: A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul (Ave Maria Press) (Paperback)
Lisa M. Hendey's "A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms" is an inspirational companion volume following up the immensely popular "The Handbook For Catholic Moms." Hendey's latest book offers readers a year-long immersion into the lives of 52 saints that make up a veritable "dream team" of patrons designed to uplift a Catholic's heart, mind, body and soul.
Hendey profiles a different saint's life and virtues each week. Calling readers beyond a one-time consideration of a saint's example, the author supplies the richness of a week's worth of daily Scripture quotes supporting the lessons gleaned from the saint of the week.
This book successfully aims at encouraging the heart of a mother's spiritual life. Yet mothers will also find it an effective parenting tool, as each saint's chapter recommends simple activities and prayers that can be shared with children. I'm happy to recommend this book for its original approach in identifying and engaging the relevancy of the legacies, traditions, and values found within the Communion of Saints.
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Fantastic resource for busy moms, October 17, 2011
This review is from: A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul (Ave Maria Press) (Paperback)
Lisa Hendey, founder and editor of [...], has written a fantastic resource for busy moms looking to enrich their prayer lives. Her book, A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms available from Ave Maria Press, highlights 52 saints and takes the reader on a weekly journey getting to know each one intimately through prayer, scripture and Mrs. Hendey's personal reflections.
I adore the lesser known saints featured in her writings. My copy fell open to St. Zita of Lucca, a simple servant to a wealthy Italian family in the thirteenth century. Here the author shows the reader that they can live holy lives by imitating the actions of these saints and obtain a simple piety even in doing the most mundane and menial of chores.
Each chapter of `A Book of Saints' is broken down with a general overview of the life of a particular saint followed by the lessons mothers can obtain from their example, traditions associated with that saint, a week of scripture, a saint inspired activity and a family prayer. It's a wonderful and uplifting book that will help moms reach simple spiritual goals in between errand running and house cleaning. Writing as a wife and mother, Lisa Hendey knows what encourages us and her book absoultely delivers. I highly recommend making this book an addition to your personal library and gifting a copy to that special Catholic mom in your own life.
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Inspiring and Practical Guide to the Saints, October 16, 2011
This review is from: A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul (Ave Maria Press) (Paperback)
There are many wonderful books about Catholic saints available. Most of you probably own some of them. Perhaps you even have some collecting dust in your home. They looked so interesting, but you never found the time to read them. So, why should you purchase another one? Because in the new "A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms," Lisa Hendey has put together a very inspiring, practical guide to the saints designed especially for Catholic mothers.
Hendey, the founder of CatholicMom.com, wrote this book as the follow-up to her best selling "The Handbook for Catholic Moms." In that book, she focused on the "importance of nurturing ourselves as moms in four components of our lives: heart, mind, body, and soul." In this resource, she has profiled 52 saints and highlighted which of those four components they speak to in our lives. This book can be used on a week by week basis with the focus being on one saint per week, or one may simply wish to focus on a saint that speaks to whatever area of one's life is in need of a little extra help at the moment.
For each saint, Hendey offers a variety of topics: a brief biographical sketch, reflections on lessons learned from the saint, popular traditions associated with him or her, a quote from the saint, a week's worth of Scripture verses that are associated with the spirit of that holy person, activities to do either alone or with your children, a prayer asking for the saint's intercession, and questions to ponder throughout the week. Of course, one is under no obligation to do or reflect on all of that information, but it is good to have options. Each person reading this book will find something that appeals to her and her preferred way of learning and praying.
The variety of saints that Hendey profiles should also be noted. Beginning with our Blessed Mother, "the first and best Catholic mom," she includes many of the well-known saints you may already know and love, such as Teresa of Avila, Sebastian, Maria Goretti, Patrick, Martha of Bethany, John Paul II, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. But, she does seem to have made a concerted effort to focus on saints that are less well-known. It is possible that readers may find some new friends in the communion saints as they read and reflect on individuals such as Josephine Bakhita, Isidore of Seville, Louis and Marie-Azelie Martin, Chiara "Luce" Badano, and André Bessette.
In "A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms," Lisa Hendey has compiled and created a very useful and inspirational book. It can be used alone, with your family, or as part of a Catholic women's book club. No matter how it is used, your life will be enriched as a result.
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